This bug was fixed in the package emacs23 - 23.2+1-4ubuntu1

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emacs23 (23.2+1-4ubuntu1) natty; urgency=low

  [ Michael W. Olson (GNU address) ]
  * Resync with Debian.  Remaining changes:
  * debian/control.in:
    - Change Maintainer to Ubuntu Core Developers, per Ubuntu policy.
    - Conflict and Replace emacs23-common-non-dfsg, since we provide
      all of its features.
    - Do not suggest emacs23-common-non-dfsg.
    - Replace use of Source-Version with source:Version.
    - Require autotools-dev (>= 20100122.1) in Build-Depends, since
      the version in Karmic will fail due to a missing Perl module.
  * debian/control: Regenerate.
  * debian/copyright.in:
    - Remove text about removed files.
  * debian/copyright: Regenerate.
  * debian/emacsVER-common.postinst:
    - Don't install info files to info/dir.  This happens
      automatically now.
  * debian/emacsVER-common.prerm:
    - Don't remove info files from info/dir.  This happens
      automatically now.
  * debian/patches:
    - handle-dfsg-split.diff: Remove.
    - ubuntu-restore-nondfsg-files.diff: New patch that reintroduces
      the non-DFSG files, with the exception of .elc files and info
      files, which use special characters and thus can't be easily
      represented in patch form.  These will be regenerated at build
      time.
  * debian/rules:
    - Do not install replacements for non-DFSG files.
    - Install all info files, not just efaq.
    - Avoid uselessly building info files a 2nd time.

  [ Reinhard Tartler ]
  * Reintegrate ubuntu history in debian/changelog
  * verified that debian/patches/fix-movemail-race.diff can be dropped,
    it is integrated in the new upstream version.
  * Rebuild against new debhelper to get trigger support: LP: #449729
  * New upstream version (LP: #588203) solves:
    - huge font sizes. LP: #445402
    - scroll bar in emacs highlights/selects text, LP: #581486
    - org and tbl menus are no longer missing in org-mode, LP: #640504
  * Add patch fix-ftbfs-xft-fontconfig.diff to avoid FTBFS.

emacs23 (23.2+1-4) unstable; urgency=low

  * Disable parallel builds (via DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=parallel) until an
    upstream race condition is fixed.  Thanks to Sven Joachim
    <email address hidden> for the report. (closes: #592992)

emacs23 (23.2+1-3) unstable; urgency=low

  * Don't try to "mkdir $(infodir)" in doc/*/Makefile.in.  Thanks to
    Stéphane Glondu <email address hidden> for the 23.2+1-2.1 NMU.

  * Use -O1 rather than -O2 on ia64.  Fixes a build failure (looks
    like a broken byte compiler) with newer versions of gcc
    (c.f. #207580).  Thanks to Sven Joachim <email address hidden> for the
    report and thanks to Stéphane Glondu <email address hidden> for the
    23.2+1-2.1 NMU. (closes: #582439)

  * Remove deprecated Encoding field from emacsVER.desktop.  Thanks to
    Stéphane Glondu <email address hidden> for the 23.2+1-2.1
    NMU.

  * Use "set -e" rather than "/bin/sh -e" in emacsVER-common.postinst
    and emacsVER-bin-common.postinst.  Thanks to Stéphane Glondu
    <email address hidden> for the 23.2+1-2.1 NMU.

  * Add a Homepage field to debian/control.in.  Thanks to Stéphane
    Glondu <email address hidden> for the 23.2+1-2.1 NMU.

  * Remove redundant Section and Priority fields from binary packages
    in debian/control.in.  Thanks to Stéphane Glondu
    <email address hidden> for the 23.2+1-2.1 NMU.

  * Change quilt Build-Depends from (>= 0.42-1) to (>= 0.42).  Thanks
    to Stéphane Glondu <email address hidden> for the 23.2+1-2.1 NMU.

  * Change debhelper Build-Depends from (>=4) to (>= 7.0.50~) to
    support rules overrides.  Thanks to Sven Joachim
    <email address hidden>, and thanks to Stéphane Glondu
    <email address hidden> for the 23.2+1-2.1 NMU.

  * Add ${misc:Depends} to debian/control for debhelper.  Thanks to
    Stéphane Glondu <email address hidden> for the 23.2+1-2.1 NMU.

  * Fix startup hang on GNU/kFreeBSD (fix-kfreebsd-startup.diff).
    Thanks to antoine beaupre <email address hidden> for the report
    and Petr Salinger <email address hidden> for the patch.
    (closes: #559392)

emacs23 (23.2+1-2) unstable; urgency=low

  * Respect DESTDIR in doc/misc/Makefile.in. (closes: #581642)

emacs23 (23.2+1-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New emacs23 packages.

  * Update debian/dfsg-splitter.

  * Add dependency on libgconf2-dev and use --without-gconf for
    emacsFLAVOR-nox and emacsFLAVOR-lucid builds.

  * Remove patches:
      patches/fix-dynamic-menus.diff
      patches/fix-gtk-scroll-bar-events.diff
      patches/fix-rmail-capitalized-month-names.diff
      patches/use-zwj-and-zwnj-for-indic-scripts.diff

  * Refresh remaining patches.

emacs23 (23.1+1-9) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fix binary-only builds (dpkg-buildpackage -B) and conditionalize
    all packages in dh_auto_install. (closes: #580067)

emacs23 (23.1+1-8) unstable; urgency=low

  * Add automake to Build-Depends. (closes: #580006)

emacs23 (23.1+1-7) unstable; urgency=low

  * Remove Jerome from debian/control Uploaders since he has
    retired. (closes: #573442)

  * Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS parallel=N.

  * Follow current autotools-dev recommendations - build-depend on
    autoconf, remove the automatically generated files in clean, and
    regenerate them before building.

  * Update debian/compat from 4 to 7.

  * Switch to Debian 3.0 (quilt) source format and drop debian/rules
    "protected_files" handling since we don't build in $(CURDIR) and
    haven't for a while.

  * Fix ctags manpage rewriting so that ctags.FLAVOR.1 actually refers
    to man1/etags.FLAVOR.1 as intended.

  * Change debian/rules to use "dh $@" approach.

  * Update emacsFLAVOR-common dpkg dependency to require "dpkg (>=
    1.15.4) | install-info" for proper info page handling (Debian
    Policy 12.2), and remove install-info dependency from packages
    without info files.

  * Don't define unix when building emacs
    (add-unix-to-cpp-undefs.diff).

emacs23 (23.1+1-6) unstable; urgency=low

  * Apply an upstream patch to fix a problem with GTK+ scroll
    bars. Thanks to Eugen Dedu <email address hidden> for
    the report and Sven Joachim <email address hidden> for tracking down
    the patch. (closes: #560573)

  * Apply an upstream patch to include ZWJs and ZWNJs for all Indic
    scripts.  Thanks to Praveen A <email address hidden> for the
    report. (closes: #559292)

  * Fix update-alternatives call for emacs manpage.  Thanks to
    Jörg-Volker Peetz <email address hidden> and Sven Joachim
    <email address hidden> for the report. (closes: #552565)

emacs23 (23.1+1-5) unstable; urgency=low

  * Apply upstream patch to fix problem with GTK and dynamically
    generated menus (which could be unexpectedly empty).  Thanks to
    Baylis Shanks <email address hidden> for the report.
    (closes: 550541)
 -- <email address hidden> (Michael W. Olson (GNU address))   Tue, 31 Aug 2010 17:26:34 -0700